Washington Post – An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there.

“America’s generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq,” charges Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. “The intellectual and moral failures . . . constitute a crisis in American generals.”

Read the article: Armed Forces Journal – A failure in generalship.
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Defense and the National Interest – William Linds looks at the British Army’s success in Northern Ireland, one of the few cases where the state’s armed forces have prevailed over non-state forces.
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